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Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
W 0oS LeAJ, BIUNDAY., .UOUST it. 165.
The Principles of 1789 In France and Spain.
The Athoistle Republio continues to progress
in Spain, and it seems that Spanish petrolcurs
are in no respect unworthy of their French
brethren. The horrible outrages and incen
diarism at Alcoy recall the deeds of the Paris
Commune, and although the telegrams from
Madrid, inspired by the Pi y Margal Govern
ment, seek to convey that these atrocities form
an isolated case, the details which are publish
ed in the Spanish press of all shades of opinion,
prove that at Cadia, Malaga and Seville, not to
mention Carthagonua and Barcelona, as iunf
mouns deeds have been perpetrated, and anarchy
is almost comnplete. The mearch of some bat
talions of troops against Alecoy has turned out
to be little nore than a pilitary promeaudo, in
the sense that. Gen. Velarde has been unable
or unwilling to inflict any punishment upon
the insurgents. There appears to have been a
nominal aurrender of the city on the condition
of an entire amnesty, a condition which sulfi
ciently proves the impotence of the itepubli
can authorities to chasteis the worst excesses.
The resolutions of the Cortes denounciug ven
geance upon the Alcoy kssaseins are so much
empty ganconado. Gen. Coutreras, lately
Governor of Catalonia on behalf of the
Madrid Ciovernmentv is now Governor of
Carthegena against the Madrid Govern
*ment. It is not improbable that we may
hear of him next as Captain-General of
Madrid by the appointment of the authorities
he is opposing to-day. In fact, it is already
evident that the Reds have gained the upper
band in the Cortes as well as in the great
cities. Pi y Margall, who was elected Dictator
a fortnight ago by the votes of the more Con
servative members of the Cortes, in order to
present a firm front to the Red faction, has, as
might have been expected from the antece
dents of the tranatator of Proudhon, ratted to
the Beds, and is endeavoring to form a Red
Cabinet by the aid of the revolutionary ex
deputies, whose re'rmiesnto was the signal for
the outbreak in the South. The spectacle of
the new Mianistry will be instructive. The
Social t Pi y Msrgall, the blasphemous Saner
y Cap de rvlle, ad the unscrupulous Esters.
nue will be no bad representatives of the party
which confiscates property, whieh aesassluates
priests and deolies ehurches, and whihob trains
soldiers of the stamp of the brutal mercena
ries who ravage the hamlets of Navarre and
Catalonia, but who surrender like sheep to
raw guerrillas and half-armed peasants.
Of course, the duration of Republieanism in
Spain is impossible, though it may last long
enough to make the ultimate recovery of the
sountryin the highest degree tardy and diffi
cult. The annual revenue of Spain in ordinary
ciroumstances hardly exceeds £20,000,000, and
the interest on the debt is computed to absorb
£418,000,000 ofthat amount At present, how
ever, the revenue is seareely collected at all,
and the debt is being continually augmented
by loans at enormous usury. Twelve months
of Republicanism might be trusted to reduce
the annual revenue of the State to £1,.000,000,
and to raise the annual Interest on the State
debt to £:k',wi,000. We can see nothing
ahead for Spam accordingly but total financial
collapse, even though total social collapse may
be prevented by the rapid extension of the
Carlist power, or by some unlikely revolution
on behalf of the ex-Qoeen Isabella. Consider
ing the manner in which the capitalists of the
European Stock Exchanges-those gigantic
"hails" which can deride the penalties re
served for gambling of a lesser order-have
encouraged the unscrupulous politicians who
have brought Spain to its present condition,
it will be somewhat hard to feel much com
aniseratien for the disappointmeat in store for
them. It may be as wrong to swindle a swin
dler as to swindle anybody else, but we fancy
that, nevertheless, the world will be more
amused than horrified at the pusishment of
the spculators srhoke gold has supplied meat
sad drik, arms and ammunition, to the ban
dits and freebooters who have ruined the coun
try of the Cid. A good many European capi
talists have put themselves, towards Spanish
Revolutionists, pretty much in the same rela
tion as the enterprising persons who advance
the purchase moniss for 'jemmies" and skele
ton-keys to certain classes of operators. We
sospect that they are about to realize the risks
- which it is to be presumed they allowed for in
the calculation of their rates of interest. The
"'modern civilization"condemned by the Sy'
Zsbas has accepted the principles of 1749. Now
aatlonal bankruptcy is a leading principle of
the Revelation. !t will be a singular incon
sIatency on the part of " modern civilization"
If the impending bankruptcy of Spain is not
appreciatod accordingly.
Apparetly encouraged by the success of the
Bevolntetppsopslganda in Spain the friends
of citizens Oimbetta, Ilane, li.rodut and tihe
like, redouble their exertions to re-introduce
France to the seenes of the Fourth of Septem
ber sand the Eighteenth of March. No oppor
tauity eist by the partisans of dilsorder in
the National Assembly to provoke disturbances
which they hope will have the effect of lower
ing the authority of the Legislature through
out the country. M. Thiers is asserted to be
the leding counsellor of this strategy al
theo lie refrains from presenting himself in
publio and from openly assuming the respon
ablity for the acts of his clients and allies.
He prefers, it seems, to play the part of "ehanm
ber lawyer to the Revolution, and his organs
in the press conduct themselves accordingly.
Every time that a furious uproar has been pro
wkedl by some nuderstrapper of the plot, no
thing can exceed the grief of thie .ournal des
D1ebs, the XIX.me btelede and the rest of the
pseudo-moderate journals at the occurence.
If we had only kept M. Thters," they sigh.
Or they ask, ith virtuous indignation, " Is it
not plain that the Assembly has outlived
itselfl A Legislature which abandons Itself
to such violence had better he dissolved with
out delay."
It may be acknowledged that the move, if
unscrupulous, is not unskilful. A great part
of its succes must, however, depend upon the
means wbhich the Conservatives may adopt in
order to counteract it. Plainly anything like
concession would be thrown away on the band
of fanatics and intriguers who profess to be
marshalled under the united standards of AMt.
Gambetta and Tblers. At the same time it is
impossible to allow the Sovereign Legislature
to be converted into a bull-rlag or bear-garden
for the tdiversion of the gentlemen of the Ruo
Grolees and similar loealities. The disrespect
which has been shown to h. Buffet on repeated
oocasions cannot be tolerated, unless the As
sembly is to suffer hrom the slights showered
upon Its Presiddent. It will be found to be ab
Soloutely necessary to give the President full
powes to order the removal of a deputy who
prts in defying the Chair. When the Reds t
disover that an attompt to overthrow the
proper diselpline of Pariament is likely to be
ollowed by prompt exclusion, and only to be a
pardoned on ample apology, riotous behavior
will be no longer at a premium. If the Right t
are to govern France, the first lesson they
must learn is that their opponenta understand
no arguments save those of superior force, I
and, however regretable is the recourse to
force, whenever there is nio other remedy it
should be unflinchingly applied. It is proba
ble that with the exception of the adrid
Cortes, the French Assembly is the only legis
lative body in the world whose members are
perfectly untrammeled by oath or obligation I
of any kind. This is liberty enough in all
conscience, without uperadding the liense
of indecrum into the burga ding t. licenseI
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We see that Paocran & GanaLa'se ExTv a
OIJ5 soAP is beeomtg very popular is our city,
its quality we know is superior, sand bsen. nicely per
fumed, we are nat.aurprtst that consume lree prr it, 1
and tst It ha s a large sale. t
S At the request of several fries, and m
an act of justice to General Beauregard,
we copy, from the Lynchburg, Va. Reei,
the following
Letter trm s.. A. A. ly;
EMBRACING 4 COMMUNICATION SOM QUW
ERAL BEAURGOAR~, ZEPLAINING AZD
D3FENDINO HIMs roITION.
LrYNcIBuLO, July 26th, 1873.
i To the Editors of thbe Petersbu Appeal sand Indox:
Gcntlemen.-I find in your paper of to
day, with your endorsement, an extract
from the Raleigh, N. C., Bentinel, severely
i commenting on General Ieauregard in
connection with what is known as " uni
t ilcatlon." I take the occasion to make
u an appeal in behalf of my old commander,
friend and comrade, against the condemna
tion which is being heaped upon him by
persons who do not understand his post
tion and motives. I am lately in receipt of
a letter from him, and I take the liberty of
copying a portion of it. He says:
" Like many others, you think that we
I have time to wait, and allow matters to ad
P just themselves quietly and gradually;
ob t I can assure you that we are 'driven to
f the wall," and are on our last legs.' No
ore can realize our sad distress unless he
f witness our condition. It makes one's
s heart bleed to think of the poverty and
ruin which are actually staring in the face.
most of our best people. I do not speak
t for myself and family for, thanks to my
r professional reputation, I can manage to
get along comfortably enough here or
elsewhere, but I refer to those thousands
of planters who have no other resource
than their industry and knowledge of the
1 cultivation of the soil. Take away from
them their plantations, and they will be
r perfectly helpless. _
S" Our ' nification' movement may not
take ' like a prairie fire,' but it will surely
sucoeed qi this State when viewed in its
proper light; for, after all, we only pro
pose to ooord to the colored people the
political and civil rights guaranteed to
them by their Radical constitution on con
I dition that they will aid us in getting rid
of those vagabonds who have been plun
dering us so unmercifully for the last five
years.
e "In advocating this plan I give up no
principle and wish to part with no friends.
I believe now, as I did when I fired the
I first gun in 1861, and one of the last in
b 1865, that the cause we upheld was a just
and holy one; but we failed in our strug
gle, were overpowered and conquered, and
we have to submit to the old Gallic maxim
m nalhcar au. rtaincs,~-I view onupresent
, condition in its practical light. If I were
u attacked by a set of highway robbers, and
some negroes could come to my assistance,
i ought I refuse their aid because they are
y colored people? No, indeed! I would ac
e cept it, and give them probably my shirt
" with which to make a rope to hang the
r- scoundrels; and thus I am willing to do
for the plunderers o: Loui iana. This
, movement is not at all political, nor do I
e recommend it to other States not similarly
o situated, where the inhabitants are not
o, boldly called upon by those in authority
'- (under the protection of Federal bayonets)
'r to 'stand and deliver.'
" What I recommend to my people is
' simply 'unification' to rid ourselves of
,f those unscrupulous carpet-baggers who are
ýt raining us, and 'immigration' to enable
i. our planters to change their extensive and
ý- expensive plantations into small, profitable
i- farms, by which also we will be able to
h turn our vagrant colored population into
a property-holders and tax-payers, thereby
" making them useful, conservative citizens.
' "My friends need not fear that I shall go
a farther in this movement than I at first in
tended. I am no politician; and have no
? desire to occupy office, either Federal,
State or municipal; and no consideration
, at present (in view of the position I have
assumed) could induce me to accept one if
tendered me. Those who are absurd and
ut unjust enough to compare me with an ex
Confederate officer whose mourning we
to wear in our hearts, must know very little
is of me if they suppose I am about to follow
a this example. I have too high a regard
a' for my reputation, (which belongs not
r. alone to me,) ever to forswear the past;
n but, at the same time, I claim the right of
s advising, to the best of my ability, my.fel
r- low-citizens of Louisiana what is best to
ý- do to save themselves and their State from
O utter ruin and desolation. Having done
-so, my art Is ended, and theirs must com
mence.
Now, I submit that, however much we
may dissent from General Beauregard and
a his co-adujutors as to the soundness of the
policy proposed by them, there is no good
ý- and sufficient cause for impugning his mo
tives, and casting upon him that grave
" censure with which he has been visited by
some, nor for classing him with those who
have proved recreant to former princl
t ples.
1 We must consider the terrible ordeal
f through which the people of Louisiana are
passing, and recollect that we have not yet
been subjected to such a test.-lleaven
I knows that I havo no toleration for infidel
ity to sacred principles or to the memories I
of the past, and I have taken occasion to
express to General Beauregard my decided
Sconviction that hle has committed a grave
Smistake, and will be disappointed in the
results of his movement; but I have no
I doubt of the entire integrity of his mo- '
tivee, and can take him by the hand as a
cordially as ever, feeling that, though mia
taken, he has shown a degree of heroism in
making a sacrifice of his feelings for the
good of his people, which is perhaps, not
surpassed by any that has marked his for
mer career.
Let us all take warning from the sad a
fate or Louisiana, and the terrible straits
to which her best citizens are reduced for
the purpose of getting some slight relief, "
and unite, with one mind and one will,
in a supreme effort to save our State from
the control of the Radical party, and
prevent (Uo infliction upon us of sucha
wrongs as those endured by General ra
Beauregard's fellow-citisens, for fear
that some of oer people may be seduced
to the dire extremity of suing to their
former slaves for merey.
After all, when we view the question B
aright, General Benauregard is yielding
nothing to the negro, but finding hll peo
ple powerless and helpless at the feet of
unscrupulous adventurermers from abroad,
who are sucained by the most infamous
native renegades, and backed by the bay
oneta of the merciless government at ,
Washington, and as he believes help
lessly so, he appeals for relief to the de a
luded negroes who have been used as L
tools in reducing Louisiana to her present a
s condition, with the belief that this fur
nishes the only possible means to escape
' from utter ruin and desolation. Let us
" respect the motives of a brave man re
dueed to the necessity of Jseortin; to the
diffoulties and distress of his position by
visiting him with undeserved opprobrium.
Sooner or later, the fate of Louisiana must
i be that of all the Southern States which may
come under the rule of the Radical party,
and if, by our dissensions on minor ques
tions, or our apathy, we shall permit the
government of our Stats to be wrested
. from the control of her true white people,
p we willdeservethe dreadful lot which will
most assuredly be ours.
a Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant.
' J. A. EAI:LY.
Some More Jesuit Wiles
STIHE FAMOUS WELD WILL CASE-A SENSIBLE
f WOMAN, AND A PRUDENT DISPOSITION OF
r IIER PROPErTr.
Pietro, the London lrrespondent of the
Brdoklyn Berietw, under date of July 10th,
writes:
One rarely has anything so exquisitely
absurd as the " Great Catholic Will Case,"
which, after a very brief trial, was decided
yesterday in the Probate Court by Sir
,. James Hannen and a special jury. It was
heralded in some of the journals as "a
r most startling exhibition of Jesuit cun
ning," and the court was crowded with
r people who came to hear the awful did
i closures that were promised.
Thirty-six years ago the wife of a Mr.
s Weld became a Roman Catholic, and re
a mained so up to the time of her death,
s which happened last year. She was a poor
girl of respectable family. Her husband,
t who was a Catholic like herself, was very
I rich. He performed some services to a Con
p tiuental sovereign and was made a baron,
so that this lady became not only wealthy
Sbut a baroness. In course of time Baron
Weld died, leaving his fortune to his
widow and to his son. A few years after
I wards the son also died; leaving his for
tune to his mother. After many years the
e baroness again married, this time to a Mr.
Winterbothan. He died not long since,
leaving his fortune to her, and thus the ba
roness found herself still more wealthy
e than before, and with no one with any
o claim upon her wealth. Her mother and
t her sister were her only relatives. These
- she provided for liberally, and being a de
l vout and well-instructed Catholic, she em
a ployed herself in sustaining works of
! charity. She died at Ostend, in 1872, leav
Sltig a respectable annuity to her mother
I and sister, giving legacies to various
, friends, bequeathing £1,000 to the Pope,
e and leaving the rest of her property,
amounting to about £60,000 to Archbishop
t Manning and other Catholic dignitaries
e and priests for the benefit of certain chari
o ties or institutions which she named. As
s the result showed there never was a more
1 just and reasonable will ever made, nor a
more intelligent, sound-minded, and free
t testatrix. But the mother and sister-who
are Protestants-were angry at not getting
the whole of the property, to which they
had no claim whatever; and they easily
s found attorneys to take up the case on
"f speculation," and to bring a suit to set
s aside the will on the ground that it had
e been obtained by " undue influence," "Je
snit intrigue," and " priestly intimida
tion." The counsel for the will contented
themselves by proving, by incontestible
witnesses, that the Baroness was a women
of sound mind, admirable business quali
ties, and perfectly well aware of what she
was doing ; and then they waited for the
evidence on the other side. There was
none! The contestants of the will had
charged eighteen gentlemen with a con
spiracy to obtain this lady's money-and
when it came to prove it, they had not a
word to say. 5 Only two witnesses were ex
amined--the mother and sister. One of
them said she thought she was ill-used be
cause the Baroness had not left her £500 a
a year-the other one had only some reflec
tions of her own to read out of her diary,
giving her views on the Jesuits ! The
Judge summed up in very strongs words
for the will, declaring that there was no
doubt. The Jury at once found for the
will; and the Judge then ruled that as
the contest against the will had been a
wholly unfounded and unreasonable one,
the contestants should pay all the costs.
i The charity of the much abused " Je
suits," alone prevented this order from be
ing enforced. They instructed their coun
sel to say that while they wished it to be
made a matter of record that the attempt
to break the will was one that should be
punished by this penalty, they would not
itsist on ire paynient.
AN A',oi.oo.-In some unaccountable man
uertehaveplaced ourselves in a position whichre
quires an apology to our readers generally, and to one
of our oldest and staunchest friends in particular. Por
over five yeara-in fact, ever since this paper was first
started-its readers have had the pleasure of reading a
notice telling them that they could got the prettiest
wall paper, window-shade,, etc., at the very lowest
prices, at M. Wheelahan's, yo. 119 Common street.
Vell, in the last three issue, to the regret of all, this
notice was left out, and a name which is as muc. a part
of tihe STas as it heading was not tobe found. As a spe.
cino of oilrde we bring the notice forward to a promi
nent place on our fifth page, and sagain assure our rsead
ers, both In country and city, that the proper place to
make purchases of paints, oils, glass, window shades,
etc,, is at Mh. Wheclahane', 119 Common street.
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last week, Is condueted by i8atere of the same Order
snd on the same principles as the celebrated Nazareth
Academy of Bardstswn. As an advertisement in "
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those of Nazareth and much lower than those of many
other institutions of a similar class. On other points
enoh as health, temperature, ttc.. it otffers advantages
which ertalnly few other convents can claim. The
neat session will commenoe on the first of next month,
and we advise all who doesire to make satisfactory ar.
rangements for their daughters to wr;ei for cirenlars
and details at once.
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Ky., the young ladles' academy of the abore name is
situated. It is conducted by Sistere of the Order of St.
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S UZlGLAD.
e Eeclesiastical Appeals.--The maihalltera
I tion which the Lords will have to consider
Ia the reinsertion moved by Mr. Hardy, of
Lord Salisbury ',roposal to transfer eo
y clesiastical ap pes from the Jodiclil com
mittee to the new court. It waq opposed
in the Lords by the Archbishop of Canter
d bury, and withdrawn by the advice of
Lord Selborne who feared tn ecclesiastical
debate in the Lower house, an apprehen
sion which was anything but Justified, as
the transfer met with the approval of
everybody: of the Low Church members
becauso they dislike ecclesiastical judges,
and of the High Church, because they are
anxious to deprive the judgments of all
semblance of spiritual validity. In his
comiments on the Ritualist petitions the
Archbishop expressed a strong hope that the
F new court would be invested with effectual
power to deal with such matters. Another
petition, similar to that of the 483, and
e signed by f.ir Oxford professors, has ex
, cited his Grace's indignation even more
than the other, and his strictures on the
absent professors, but the paper not being
~ before the House, procured him a snub
bing from Lord Salisbury, who was ex.ofi
r ci bound to defend them.
Possible Effect of the Transfer.-We do
not wish to be ill-natured, but the prognos
- tic in which the Archbishop of Canterbury
indulged in the debate on Lord Salisbury's
proposal for the transfer of these appeals to
an exclusively lay court, is too curious not
to be noticed. Ignorance of theological
terms was so general, he said, among the
lawyers, that "if there had not been ee
elesiastical members of the Privy Council
to correct them one decision might have
excluded the whole High Church party
I another might have excluded the Low
Church party, and a third the Broad
Church party." We need not ask what
Swould have remained; obviously the No
s Church party. And it is, therefore, na
tural that those whose great hobby is corn
- prehensiveness, should,like " Anglicans"
3in the Times, protest against the abolition
of a Court "which has hitherto tended to
promote the harmonious working of our
complicated system.
The Bishops and the .ituaiists.-The four
hundred odd clergymen have certainly sue
I ceeded, first in producing a sensation, and
then in eliciting as authoritative a declara
tion as is consistent with the peculiar
habits of the Anglican Communion that
f " habitual " penitents are at least as ob
- jectionable to its pontiffs and to the ma
jority of its members as habitual criminals
of any other class. The only difierence of
opinion is as to how they are to be dealt
with. Lord Oranmore suggested that the
Bishops should inhibit the clergymen who
a introduced these ionovations, and that
- there should be a Select Committee to con
sider how the danger might be. averted
3 by legislation; and the Times backs him
up by asserting that, if there is any risk in
3 action, "the time has come when the risk
must be incurred." "There is no limit,"
S continues the writer of the article, " to
the disorganization before us if the open
violation of the law is to be be tolerated.
i It is not worth while to retain men in the
t Church who refuse obedience to its lawful
I authorities." Yet the Bishops evidently
think it unreasonable that they should have
to do anything. "The task," said the
Archbishop of York, was "too great for
them to undertake." Twenty years had
elapsed since the same grievances were
complained of in a petition to the Queen,
and although nine out of every ten bene
ficed clergymen must have passed away,
" the same state of facts seemhed to exist."
And he and the Archbishop of Canterbury
both pronounced the same opinion, that
the remedy was to be found in the action
of the laity. Dr. Tait appealed to lay pa
trons not to appoint men of "extreme
views;" but we do not suppose they do,
nuless they hold "extreme views" them
selves, and then what is the use of appeal
ing to them I We suspect that the extreme
disinclination of the Bishops to translate
their denunciations into action arises part
ly from the fact that such prosecutions t
would be very expensive. The costs in at
number of Purchas and Bennett trials
would make a terrible hole in the income
which has to keep up a family establish- t
ment expected to be on the scale of that of i
a well-to do squire. It is easier to confine
oneself to letters against the " ach'sm " of
Dissenters, anchas Bihop-- Wordsworth
Gas just been putting forth, a letter which
has elicited from the Spectator the follow- c
ing pithy and pertinent remark: "No t
wonder they (the high-and dry Bishops) s
are morbid about schism. If our whole e
Church be not schismatic, in their formal
sense, what is it ? But if it be schismatic,
why was Wesley worse than Cranmer t
Anglicans should cease to maunder about
schism, or else cease to be Anglicans."
PRUSSIA.
State and Church in Prussia.-The ap
pointment of Herr von Balan to be Prus
sian Secretary for Foreign affairs has been
oficially announced, and the telegram adds '
that Prince von Bismarck thus virtually
ceases to be a member of the Prussian Ca
binet, though whether he remains so nomi
nally is unknown. The legacy which he
has left behind him in the shape of a new
ecclesiastical policy isalready beginning to
prodace embarrasement. The Archbishop
of Cologne has been interrogated in his
own palace-his coadjutor, Mgr. Baudri, is I
absent-and the Courts will have to pro
nounce upon the monstrous contention of
the Government that an Arbchbishop has
broken the law because he has excluded
from Catholic Communion two priests who
have openly joined a schismatical sect,
and from the performance of Catholic func- t
tions two Seminarists who have openlyt
obtained ordination from a prelate of a
hostile communion. "Seeing the diff- I
enlties before them, the authorities have,
it is said, endeavored to effect, some
kind of compromlise. The President
of the Rhine provinces, Herr von Bar
deleben, has, it is reported, been to visit e
the Archbishop, Md has proposed several ar
rangements, oon which was that the Gov- 1
ernment would accept all the Archbtishop's d
nominations, if he would first notify them t
to the authorities for approval. This the t
Archbishop of course refused, referring the y
President to the collective Memorandum of C
the German Bishops. In a reply to a let- a
ter of sympathy from the Catholic Associa- d
tion of Lower Austria, the principal lead- ib
ers of the Centrums Fraction, or Catholic
party in the Reicbstag, express great confl- i
dence that"theParliamentary triumphs"of
their enemies "will break io paeces against
the resistance offered by the faith of he j
people," and that the State will be obliged,
in its own interest, to retrace its steps, and
to deliver the Church from its bonds.
CHRISTIANITY IN JAPAN.
-' Informatilqe nt to the afisioes Efran
'r geres by ord ý Mgr. Petitjean enables ad
Df to judge of the real state of the toleration
- question i Japan. On the 26th April 671
- native Christinp$ had arrived at Oaragami
d from their places of exile, viz.1 25 from the
r- province of Kichou, 87 from Bingo, 39 from
if Aki, 102 from Nagato 286 from Sats'ma,
Ii and 107 from Owari. risohers from Cage,
- to the number of 470, had been seen on
m their way home at Kobe and Osarea; and
f theist May 100 from the province of Ya
' mato had arrived at Kobe, and news had
" been received of the deliverance of the
e Christians in the provinces of Toso and
11 Awn. Nothing was yet known of thb prise
s oners who were at Chokichen, Te'wano,
ie Bijen, and Iche. Mgr. Petitjean sums up
e the matter thus: There is for a moment
I actual toleration, there is not as yet legal
r toleration. The Japanese Minister of For
d eign Affairs had declared to the French
Charge d'Affaires, that it was " not tolera
e tion, but a step towards toleration." And
in ordering the prefects of provinces to re
move the persecuting edicts, the Govern
ment. observes that "being sufficiently
known to the people, they are hencefor
ward useless." The reason assigned may
o indeed only be a device to save sppe ar
- ances; but all will depend npon the con
9 tinned influence which European Govern
a mente may bring to bear upon the Japanese
o authorities. In the present Ministers Mgr.
't Petitjean has perfect confidence, but he
i observes that the whole state of things
e may be at any time completely changed by
an internal revolution, and if, in the ap
I proaching revision of the treaties, a guar
e aptee is not inserted for the toleration of
Christianity, a new Government hostile to
v religion might take advantage of the omis
d sion and at any time renew the persecu
A tion.
Switzerland.
" [From Correspondent Leaden Tablet, July 19.]
1 A very sad scene and one very Ill-calculated
n to give foreigners visiting Switzerland a fa
r vorable notion of our manners and education
as not only Republican, but also civilized and
decent, has occurred on board one of the
r steamers which ply on the lake of the Four
- Cantons. On Tuesday, the 8th of July, the
d last day of the choral festival at Lucerne, a
number of singers from Zurich and'Bale were
r going by water to Fluelen. On its return, the
t boat stopped at every station to take in pas
sengers, and at Tells-plats received on board
Mgr. Lachat, the venerated and persecuted
Bishop of Bale. His lordship was accompa
nied by three ecclesiastics, and scarcely had
he taken his place in the vessel when he was
t rudely accosted by two of the singers, who
a used expressions of an offensive character to
) wards him. The two blackguards finding that
t their behavior had no effect on the bishop. 1
who made no reply but preserved his calm and
dignity, sat down beside him and kept on
talking in a loud tone of voice so as to draw
the attention of the other persons on deck to
the Bishop. The rest of the singers soon took
up the joke, and to the number of 300 crowd
ed round Mgr. Lachat. A scene took place not
unlike that in the hall of Caiphas with all its
i indignities, and the two singers uttered to the
good Bishop speeches similar to those of the 1
Jews to our Saviour. The persons from Bale
and Zurich played their part quite naturally;
one might have fancied oneself in Jadeas
Mof t of the demonstrators had bottles, out
of which they were quaffing large bumpers of
wine. One of them filled a glass, and ap
proaching the Bishop offered it to him with e
feigned politeness. To have done so was quite
in accordance with Swiss customs ; the Bishop
therefore, with much condescension, and not
seeing the intent, was about to accept it; but
when he out out his hand, the man rudely
drew back the glass, uttering at the same time
the grossest abuse.
The scandal went on increasing. hoping to
put a stop to it, the Bishop left the deck and
descended into the saloon of the vessel, but the
rabble followed him thither and continued i
their mockings and insults- His lordship then t
determined to leave the vessel, and did so at
the next stoppage, at the station of Beckoen- r
ried. This took the mobbers by surprise, and I
the 300 determined not to let their victim es
cape without additional sufferings. So they
vented their demoniac rage in yells and hisses
against the meek and holy Bishop as be quit- a
ted the boat, and some of them even went so
far as to fling empty bottles as an accompani
ment to their curses and hootings.
Such things are scarcely credible, and yet r
they are strictly true. I had the narrative L
from a respectable eye-witness, a man who a
does not share our venelstion for the Catholic t
Bishop, but who nevertheless does not conceal c
his indignation at such things being done in s
Switzerland.
It is then unfortunately a faot which remains
on record-that, in July, 1873, at a choral fes- 0
tival at the city of Lucerne, in a Catholic city
and a Catholic Canton, whish had vied with
each other in giving their countrymen a splen
did reception, which had decorated and illn-  
prinated its streets and squares and quays, and 1
qpade every exertion to give them a brilliant e
welcome, and had snucceeded in doing so-it is a
a fact that a band of bullies, 300 in number, 2
hailing from Bale and from Zurich treated the
Bishop of that city and Canton of Lucerne, ]
just as the Jews treated our Saviour in the a
Hall of Caiphas; it is a fact to go down to t
postbiity that this disgraceful scene was enact
ed against a prelate who is banished from his t
diocese and driven from his episcopal reei
deuce ; and that it occurred on board of a yes- p
eel in which the Bishop and his suite had paid
their passage. and had a right to common pro
tection, and to the same safety as was enjoyed
by the 300 insulting aggressors, who if they
can boast of being natives of Bale and Zurich r
are not on that account authorized to behave c
like blackguards when away from home.
The scene took place on the borders of the
lake of Lucerne (the fourth Canton) under
the shadow of the Federal flag of Switzer
land,'that floated proudly over the etemboat;
and without any person, either the captain or
any of the passengers interfering to put a atop
to the outrage I It took place on the very day
when the men of Lucerne celebrate the anni
versary of the battle of Sempach, and thank T
the God of armies for having granted them w
that victory by which the Swiss nationality hi
was founded, and liberty and independence
purchased by the blood of the men of Lucerne
and of the heroes of the Cathollo " Little c
Cantons," on the anniversary of the death of
Winkelried, by the sacrilce of whose life the .
victory was won. b1
Bat alas, since then times have woefully
changed; and such an eccurrence can only be
explained by the progress of demoralization.
The evil comes down from high quarters, men
do not work now pnro IkDee et patria, for God and
their country, as they did in the good old
times. What they look after now-a-days is big
subsidies, paid by the 8wise Treasury to the
Prussian Exchequer--smilee of enouonragement i
from Bismarck, and the approval of the high r
and mighty German Emperor. The preei.
dents of-the Swiss Confederation. when not
busied about their dunties as the supple vassals
of Bismrck in pela nBorr Swiss Cbatholics, orr
in proteetig the Commaq ists at Geneva and
elscwhe]r in drivinr Bishops from their '·
episcopiess..ive no objection to descend
from the presidential chair and practise stock
jobbing in a januk, or gambling in railway 'O
rney, without le . trial i e, bat b
of the Spr, F
Presidms of Jepakil. .
j time to meditate on the incon fr
tune.
I Whve only to persevere in the osewin on
hih we have entered, and Switaeelsa. oo,
i theelamssio land of liberty and ndepeni tsu
s will soon be redud to a mere Pree~ a
"n pondeaoy, Snad,wijl $onrlah ast pr
i, of dishonest flnaesnrote_, ofn nip b
i, holders, and religos p
not fair off from th't consammation, if w
d not already reached it.
As for the old hospitality, the old ho
and the old courtesy of Switzerland, thew 'i
have gone-if things continu as they are
they will have gone the same way as the men
ey of the shareholders of the "Credit Foaclj '
- Suisse," whose founder, director, and eonda.'
tor (to a smash), was that same M. Fornerqo
p whose suocessor in the fauteull has dcrien
t Mgr. Mermillod into exili
1 If there was not found a solitary Swiss or a
single Catholic with manhood enough to take
the part of Mgr. Lachat against that egwadly
mob of howlers, we have at least the sstl ,.
tion of knowing that a foreigner and a Prog.
estant was not afraid to testify openly his re
spect for the hunted Bishop in the presence of
- those who were insulting him.
y By latest intelligence we learn that whilst
Mgr. Laohat was enduring the outrages of the
300 maniacs, the foreigners who happened to
_ be on board could not refrain from expreeing
their indignation. One of their number oame
- towards the Bishop and said: "Monseegneez
- allow me, although a Protestant, to present.
B you my card and to express the sympathy I
feel with you in what you pre undergoing. I.
a am the Secretary-General of the Minister of
s Worship of Hanover; and I have read in osr
Y Protestant newspapers of the sufferings which
your lordship and the Catholies of Switass.
land have had to encounter, but I never could
have suspected that there could have been so
much bsseness on the partof your perstators,
c if I had not witnessed it with my own eyes
- I do at this moment."
Discord has broken out in the " Old-Catho..
li11" camp. Loyson is getting tired of Geneva
and is wanting to be made the Bishop of 8wi.
.erland; baut before thatean come about l will
have to effect a fusion between his "L
Catholics, who talk French, and the "Old
Catholics of German Switserland. It isu p
hill work. He has gone to Berne this week to
open negotiations with the political ohief of
the anti-Infallibilist movement. Conferences
are taking place there, Herr Keller taking the
chair, and all the perasecutors are there, ineln
ding the two priestly apostates, Gschwind and
Herzog. Loyson's plae are opposed tooth and
nail by Herzog, who aims at a mitre for him
sel, and is gone into Germany to secure the
support of Bismarck. He Is jealous of the
reputation of the ex-Carmelite, and would
like to onnfge him to Geneva and his "Liberal
Catholics."
It is said that Loyson has been asked to
preach at Geneva. If that be so, it shows
that Herzog has been baffled; for until now
Berne has been looked upon as his special do
main. It was Herzog who took the leading
part in the demonstration made at Munziger's
funeral.
It is well known that the President of the
Confederation was eager to welcome Loyson,
and gave a public dinner on Wednesday, the
day he arrived at Geneva. The diplomatic
representatives of France and Belginds, of
course, received invitations, but the French
Minister, M. Lanfrey had the good taste to re
fuse. Lot us give him credit for the same.
Unhappily we cannot do so to the Belgium
Charge d'Affaires, who found himself the sin
gle diplomatic personage that graced with his
presence the banquet given in honor of per
jury and apostasy.
We trnst that the Cathollos of Belgium will
make reparation fos this insult to their breth
ren in Switzerland. The Belgian nation has
shown us much sympathy; must it be that the
Government of King Leopold IL is to take the
side of the renegades and persecutors As for •
M. Ceresele, who plumes himself on his "mod
eration," we can feel little surprise at his con
duct, " Bon sang ne degenere pas." Hisfath.
er was born and bred a Catholio; but turned
Protestant to get a good living as a "pasteur."
Of course the son must sympathize with apos
tates. As for the other gentleman, he who
without pretence of law, drove Mgr. Mermillod
into exile-he would have fallen off sadly from
that renown if he had not given the warmest
of welcomes to the wolf that has got into Ge
neva in the room of the true shepherd. (M.
Rsmmet, in the " Lettres de Saisse."
NBWSPAPER PuFrs.-Some men, in giving
advertisements to newspapers, like to have what is
called a "pal," setting forth that they are either the
kings or emperors in their line of trade, or are world
renowanerd for their sagacity, energy, eto. Other men
like to have a.puff which commences with an accsant
of something wonderfal, thinking thereby to entrap
the reader into giving attention to their admvrtlsemates.
Others again, small in number, however, but eminent
as thorough.golag business men. witheat a particle of
hambuggery, desire tLha a plain etaotment bs.mde
concerning the inducements they oebr to purchasers.
Of this last class, Mesars. Pierson & Bews, clothier,.
Nos. 13and 15 Camp street, are rspresatatives. Br.
Ing had many years experience in the clothing and
gentlemen's farnlshlnggoods bayse.s, theyyunrastaad
tolly the demands of our peopl, ad having a large
capital invested, they are enabled to hakeep a stock sueh
as affords ample room for selectlle to the moot tfaeidiena
The writer of this notice has dealt fer many years with
Messrs. Pierson & Hews, and can testify so the it
that whatever representation they make conoera4gg
their goods always proves true, and thatin every map
ner, particularly as regards prioe and length of time
the goods wear, he has been fally satifed. We call
special attention to their advertisement on our 8fth
page, and strongly recommend them to such of our
readers as may need anything in thbbir line.
Martin Druhan, Esq., commission merchant,
No 39 Commerce sheet, is the agent of Blood,'Wolb & -
Co. for IP sale of their world renowned aleand porter.
He alwarhas a large supply on hand, and fll ordera
from the country and city with promptness and at the
owest market rates.
One of the most pleasant and, at the same
time, the surest of cures, is Laplace'sa ladlan Turnip
Peotoral Balm. It In made from the root of the Indian
Turnip and has been used for ages by our old Creoles,
who live to such a wonderful old age. Try it when you
have a conugh or cold. You can buy it of any druggist.
Mrs. lry Wagner informs the public, by a
card elsewhere, that she will continue the ahoe basi
nes, of her laito husband, John George Wagner, at the
old stand, corner Ursaline and Dauphine streets.
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